Why is the goverment not stopping the big corporates in and around East St. Louis blatenly avoid paying property taxes by creating thier own "towns", espeically since the city is in detestude because of their location?
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"Big River Zinc's web site claims, the plant's water treatment system collects, purifies, and neutralizes contaminated water before it leaves the plant. Additionally, Big River professes to safe and environmentally friendly disposal practices of hazardous wastes in accordance with state and federal laws. However, on December 3, 1997, EPA's Region 5 filed a complaint against Big River Zinc alleging that the corporation had failed to notify the Emergency Response Commission and the Chicago Local Emergency Planning Committee of hazardous waste releases. Furthermore, the EPA alleged that Big River Zinc violated numerous industry restrictions: �Failure to properly store certain hazardous wastes �Failure to submit the required notification of treatment technology in use at a facility, as well as, failure to keep required records regarding such treatment technology �Failure to satisfy certain requirements of a generator storing hazardous waste 90 days or less without a permit� as well as other violations �Failure to keep on-site copies of notification forms for hazardous waste sites �Failure to send copies of two hazardous waste sites to the Illinois EPA
In late 1998, EPA Region V proposed a penalty of $75,150. "
Living in East St. Louis is unsafe. Surrounded by Monsanto, American Bottom Sewage Plant and Trade Waste Incineration, and Big River Zinc, the city is not suitable for living because of these companies that mass produce chemicals for the United States. Though the lawsuit suing Big River Zinc was filed by the EPA five years after Savage Inequalities was written, this confirms that Kozol's references to chemical in the air are true and have continued to plauge the city. These companies are contaminating the city, and in addition, not paying property taxes with their large revenues. Along with the highest rate of childern ashma, releasing hazorous waste chemicals into the air can make people sick, as it has happened before with Monsanto Company, in Missouri. If this companies are not going to pay taxes to aid the town finacically, they should not be allowed to operate in East St. Louis.
East St. Louis
Elisabeth Johnston-
Why is the goverment not stopping the big corporates in and around East St. Louis blatenly avoid paying property taxes by creating thier own "towns", espeically since the city is in detestude because of their location?
Fact
"Big River Zinc's web site claims, the plant's water treatment system collects, purifies, and neutralizes contaminated water before it leaves the plant. Additionally, Big River professes to safe and environmentally friendly disposal practices of hazardous wastes in accordance with state and federal laws. However, on December 3, 1997, EPA's Region 5 filed a complaint against Big River Zinc alleging that the corporation had failed to notify the Emergency Response Commission and the Chicago Local Emergency Planning Committee of hazardous waste releases. Furthermore, the EPA alleged that Big River Zinc violated numerous industry restrictions:
� Failure to properly store certain hazardous wastes
� Failure to submit the required notification of treatment technology in use at a facility, as well as, failure to keep required records regarding such treatment technology
� Failure to satisfy certain requirements of a generator storing hazardous waste 90 days or less without a permit� as well as other violations
� Failure to keep on-site copies of notification forms for hazardous waste sites
� Failure to send copies of two hazardous waste sites to the Illinois EPA
In late 1998, EPA Region V proposed a penalty of $75,150. "
Living in East St. Louis is unsafe. Surrounded by Monsanto, American Bottom Sewage Plant and Trade Waste Incineration, and Big River Zinc, the city is not suitable for living because of these companies that mass produce chemicals for the United States. Though the lawsuit suing Big River Zinc was filed by the EPA five years after Savage Inequalities was written, this confirms that Kozol's references to chemical in the air are true and have continued to plauge the city. These companies are contaminating the city, and in addition, not paying property taxes with their large revenues. Along with the highest rate of childern ashma, releasing hazorous waste chemicals into the air can make people sick, as it has happened before with Monsanto Company, in Missouri. If this companies are not going to pay taxes to aid the town finacically, they should not be allowed to operate in East St. Louis.
- “Environmental Justice Case Study: East St Louis,” http://www.umich.edu/~snre492/Jones/stlouis.htm.
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